Marvin Miller: Michael Anthony

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the Tipton laboratory, where he discovers Tipton, wearing a lab coat, working with chemicals, a flame, and test tubes. Tipton is off-camera with only his hands visible to viewers]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Yes, Mike. Watch this.

  [Tipton pores the contents of one test tube into another] 

  John Beresford Tipton : I'm speeding up a chemical reaction by adding what is called a catalyst. A catalyst is an exciter, Mike.

  Michael Anthony : I beg your pardon?

  John Beresford Tipton : An exciter. Substances change, fuse, and explode from the molecules that form them, excited by a catalyst.

  Michael Anthony : Yes, sir.

  John Beresford Tipton : That's the experiments I'm making with these gifts, putting human lives under a microscope, adding the catalyst of a million dollars and watching them react.

  [Tipton hands envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Here - let's see what happens with this experiment. Our next millionaire.

  [Anthony accepts the envelope] 

• Michael Anthony : [to the viewers]  It was Dan Mulcahy, whose molecules John Beresford Tipton had chosen to excite by adding the catalyst of $1,000.000.

• Michael Anthony : [to the viewers]  One million dollars. What would you do if you had a million dollars? What would a million dollars do for you? What might it do to you? My name is Michael Anthony. For many years, I was confidential secretary to a man named John Beresford Tipton. He was a multibillionaire, and he had a multibillionaire's hobby: he liked to give people $1,000,000.

  [Holding up several folders] 

  Michael Anthony : These are the case histories of the millionaires he created. It was his wish that, after his passing, you'll learn what happened to them. This is Silverstone, the home of John Beresford Tipton, where he lived in the seclusion he preferred. His huge holdings included a chemical plant. Because John Beresford Tipton engaged in no enterprise he did not thoroughly understand, there was a laboratory at Silverstone.